The Folger Library has just digitized the rare, proof copy of Teena Rochfort Smith’s Four-Text Edition of Shakspere’s Hamlet. This was prepared in 1883 and never published, likely due to Teena’s tragic death soon afterwards, but the Folger acquired a copy of the proofs.

The story is told by Ann Thompson in “Teena Rochfort Smith, Frederick Furnivall, and the New Shakspere Society’s Four-Text Edition of Hamlet,” SQ 49 (1998): 125-39.